This document discusses why presentations are often boring compared to movies and provides tips for making presentations more engaging like movies. It notes that movies tell stories with characters and are visual, while presentations often just tell facts with data slides. The document then discusses how the author used to create boring PowerPoint presentations with walls of text and jargon but learned to use design principles like typefaces, colors, and visual storytelling to create more cinematic presentations that keep audiences engaged. It encourages learning to present like a visual storyteller to make slideshows memorable like movies.
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27. About Powerpoint The software suggests a heading and bullet points, so that’s what people go for Once you’re typing, it’s hard to remember you’re not using a word processor to write a book We’re used to seeing boring powerpoints so we think it’s acceptable We’re not trained visual storytellers, so we don’t know how to make the slides look good We think the data is more important than the message There’s so much on the slide we feel we have to read the slide to the poor suckers at the back of the room You get extra “Pro” points for using lots of jargon
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